In an interactive session with panchayat members in Maharashtra's Wardha, Congress vice President Rahul Gandhi invited suggestions for the party's 2014 election manifesto.
Here are the highlights:
- Earlier, Congress manifestos were made behind closed doors. This time we decided to ask all stakeholders
- Your voice will go into the Congress party's manifesto
- When our government comes to power we will fulfill your wishes
- MLAs and MPs are law makers and village-level representatives should ensure work is done at the local level.
- Think carefully, all MPs, MLAs and pradhans are disempowered
- Power is concentrated with the Chief Ministers and bureaucrats in states
- So we need to make the MPs powerful in Parliament, MLAs in state assemblies and then the pradhans can do their work
- What is the one line you'd want to put in the manifesto?